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+# AGENTS.md
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+## Rules
+- Collector availability is controlled by Go build tags and OS-specific filenames; check `//go:build` lines before assuming a collector exists on the current OS.
+- Use `kingpin.Flag()`, never `kingpin.Flag().Envar()`: the project has a "one-way-to-configure" policy of CLI flags only. Runtime env vars (`GOMAXPROCS`) and deprecated collectors are the only historical exceptions; maintainers have rejected env var flags for new code.
+- Collector code must not shell out: `.golangci.yml` denies `os/exec` outside tests, and `CONTRIBUTING.md` says collectors may read `/proc`, `/sys`, use syscalls, or local sockets only.
+- Keep metrics in the `node` namespace, follow the [Prometheus metric naming conventions](https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/naming/), and update README collector tables when adding, removing, enabling, disabling, or changing collector flags.
+- Parse `/proc` files via the [`procfs`](https://github.com/prometheus/procfs) dependency rather than adding ad-hoc parsing in a collector; extend `procfs` upstream if a needed file isn't covered yet.
+
+## Build And Test Commands
+- Full CI-like local check is `make`; it runs vet, metric/rule checks, shared Prometheus checks, 32-bit tests when supported, and Linux e2e only.
+- Focused unit tests: `go test ./collector -run TestName` or `go test ./... -run TestName`; use `make test` when tests need unpacked fixtures.
+- `make test` unpacks `collector/fixtures/sys.ttar` and `collector/fixtures/udev.ttar`, then runs `go test -short $(test-flags) ./...`.
+- `make build` uses `promu` and writes `./node_exporter`, which `make test-e2e` expects; root tests in `node_exporter_test.go` skip unless a binary exists at `$GOPATH/bin/node_exporter`.
+- `make test-e2e` is Linux-only from the main Makefile path; it depends on `make build`, fixture unpacking, and `make tools`.
+- `make checkmetrics` downloads/uses `promtool` and checks `collector/fixtures/e2e-output*.txt`; run it after metric output changes.
+- Lint/format shortcuts: `make format`, `make lint`, `make lint-fix`, `make yamllint`, `make unused`.
+
+## Fixtures And Generated Outputs
+- Do not edit unpacked `collector/fixtures/sys/` or `collector/fixtures/udev/` as source of truth; update `collector/fixtures/sys.ttar` and `collector/fixtures/udev.ttar` with `make update_fixtures`.
+- To refresh e2e metric golden files, run `make build tools` first, then `./end-to-end-test.sh -u`; it writes the appropriate `collector/fixtures/e2e-output*.txt`.
+- `end-to-end-test.sh` filters collector flags by OS/build context using `tools/tools match`, so an ignored flag in e2e may mean the collector is build-tag-gated for that platform rather than broken (see `Rules`).
+
+## Toolchain Notes
+- `go.mod`'s Go directive is not the source of truth for the toolchain version CI actually uses; check the workflow's `setup-go` step and `.promu.yml`/`.promu-cgo.yml`, which can each pin a different version.
+- `Makefile.common` is shared Prometheus infrastructure; comments say to open PRs against `prometheus/prometheus/Makefile.common` for generic changes.
+- golangci-lint version comes from `make print-golangci-lint-version` (`GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION` in `Makefile.common`), not from a locally installed default.
+- Docker builds produce per-arch images named `$(DOCKER_REPO)/node-exporter-linux-<arch>:$(DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG)` and cover `Dockerfile` plus `Dockerfile.*` variants.
+
+## Node Mixin
+- Mixin checks are separate: CI runs `make promtool`, `make -C docs/node-mixin clean`, `make -C docs/node-mixin jb_install`, then `make -C docs/node-mixin` and expects `git diff --exit-code`.
+- `docs/node-mixin` requires `jsonnet`, `jsonnetfmt`, and `jb`; generated files are `node_alerts.yaml`, `node_rules.yaml`, and `dashboards_out/`.